World Sunni Movement

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World Sunni Movement
বিশ্ব সুন্নী আন্দোলন
Formation1979
FounderSyed Imam Hayat
Founded atDhaka, Bangladesh
TypeSunni Islamic Organization
HeadquartersDhaka, Bangladesh
Chief Advisor
Syed Mohammad Saifur Rahman
Secretary General
Allama Raihan Rahbar
Main organ
Assembly, Seminar, Rally, Human Chain, etc.

World Sunni Movement (Bengali: বিশ্ব সুন্নী আন্দোলন) is a Sunni Islamic religious organization in Bangladesh. The organization was founded in 1979 in Bangladesh by Syed Imam Hayat.[1] The chief advisor of the organization is the Islamic scholar and researcher of Hadith Syed Mohammad Saifur Rahman Nizami. The secretary-general of the organization is Raihan Rahbar.[1] Besides Bangladesh World Sunni Movement organize their activities in The United States,[2] The United Kingdom,[3] France,[4] Italy,[5] Portugal,[6] Spain, Greece,[7] Sweden, UAE,[8] Kuwait, Lebanon, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. countries in the globe.

Beliefs[]

World Sunni Movement is based on the principles of Sunni Islam which is called in Arabic as ahl as-sunnah wa l-jama’ah(Arabic: أهل السنة والجماعة). Their faith is there is no direct light, knowledge, blessing, forgiveness from God without their dearest Prophet Mohammad. According to Quran Islam is a complete code of life. So, they believe Islam is not only spiritual but also political and their political philosophy is Khilafat-e-Insaniyat and in their language, it is the representative authority of life & humanity beyond any discrimination, the flow of truth & wealth, the structure of right & freedom, state and world of peace-safety & universal humanity under the light of divine values; given by Prophet Mohammad, the source of all blessing-love-humanity.[9] They celebrate Eid-e-Azam which means Greatest Joy in Hijri year 12th day of Rabi al-Awwal as the holy welcome celebration of the messenger of God which is the greatest blessing from God and the source of all blessings for them.[8] They celebrate Eid-e-Merajunnabi which means joy for the meeting of the Islamic prophet Mohammad with God in Hijri year 26th Rajab because they believe the meeting of the prophet is the practical proof of the existence of God through the prophet.[10] They also celebrate Martyr Day in Hijri year 10th al-Muharram. On this day prophet's beloved Husayn ibn Ali was killed by the army of Umayyad ruler Yazid I.

Role of woman[]

Both men and women participate in all the programs of the organization. Women participate and lead in seminar, meeting, rally, human chain, etc. along with men.[11][12] They believe the human entity is beyond gender and Islam gives the identity of Muslims beyond gender. According to Quran Islam is a complete code of life. So, they believe excluding women or men there is no completeness. The organization is the opposite of the woman's extreme veil where women are kept at home and can't go outside for education, job by name of Islam. In Islam, seeking knowledge is an obligation for every Muslim. When Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh chief Shah Ahmad Shafi has advised the parents not to send their daughters to educational institutions and not to educate above class four or five then World Sunni Movement organized several peaceful human chains against the speech of Shah Ahmad Shafi.[13][14][12]

Activities[]

Eid-e-Azam[]

They celebrate Eid-e-Azam which means Greatest Joy in Hijri year, the 12th day of Rabi al-Awwal.[6][8] In Syed Imam Hayat's language, “Great holy welcome of beloved Rasul to us is coming of life to our dead soul, coming of light to our dark life, coming of love-kindness-wisdom-humanity-freedom-liberty & peace against falsehood-oppression-cruelty-terrorism-injustice & destruction.”[7]

Eid-e-Merajunnabi[]

According to Islam Hijri year, 26th Rajab Islamic prophet Mohammad directly and physically met with God heavenly which is called miraj or ascension to heaven.[15] World Sunni Movement celebrates Eid-e-Merajunnabi on this day as they believe it is God's great favor of direct meeting, & eye witnessing Him by His messenger on behalf of whole mankind which is unimaginable & beyond everyone's knowledge and it is an infinite blessing for all of mankind to know the truth & destination of life.[10][16][17]

Martyr Day[]

10th al-Muharram of Hijri year the organization celebrates The National Martyr Day of whole nation as Islamic Prophet's beloved Husayn ibn Ali was killed by the army of ruler Yazid I who was nominated as successor by his father Muawiyah I before his death.[2] The appointment of Yazid I as a successor by his father was against the Islamic rule, and Husayn ibn Ali refused to pledge allegiance to Yazid I. Husayn ibn Ali is an important person in Islam as he was a member of the Household of Prophet Mohammad (Ahl al-Bayt).[18]

Dark Day[]

World Sunni Movement celebrates Dark Day on 23 September.[19] On September 23, 1932, Ibn Saud established the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The royal House of Saud demolished most of the old the Islamic heritage such as mosques, Jannat al-Baqi, Jannat al-Mu'alla, the tomb of companions of the Prophet, etc.

They condemn and protest against all the terrorist attacks by the name of religion. They condemned and protested against the terrorist attacks in 2017 London bridge attack,[20][21][3] November 2015 Paris attacks, 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, etc.[22] They also protest when someone insults and blows in their religious sentiment.[23][4][24]

Criticism[]

Recently the scholars of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat have issued a fatwa declaring World Sunni Movement a separate sect different from traditional Sunni Islam, called Barelvi in the Indian Subcontinent, just as Ahle Hadith and Deobandi are like Sunni because they accept the first four caliphs of Islam but are still different from traditional Sunnism and are not considered to be true Sunni but Sunni-like. This is because Imam Hayat, the founder of World Sunni Movement:

1) Has called , the first Ummayad caliph, a disbeliever kafir, which mainstream Sunnis do not do, although some mainstream Sunnis consider his son Yazid to be a disbeliever.

2) Claims to be the only Imam who knows the true form of Sunni Islam called Caliphate of Humanity or Khilafat e Insaniyat while most traditional Sunnis believe that Sunni Islam is defined as following the Ash'ari and Maturidi schools of kalam, the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali madhhab of fiqh and Sufism.

3) He claims to have renewed Islam from corruption in a way that mainstream Sunnis believe only Mahdi or Jesus can do at the end of times.

Even though scholars have stressed that World Sunni Movement is free to believe what they want, the fatwa requires them to find a new name and not use the word Sunni because it misleads general Sunnis into not realizing that this is a new sect different from traditional Sunni Islam.

See also[]

References[]

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